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Bye-Bye Bernanke: Let's Get Bush's Banker Out of the Federal Reserve | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
(www.alternet.org)
Much of the mainstream press has played the rising opposition to Senate confirmation of Ben Bernanke as a case of misplaced populist rage. The fact that the opposition within the Senate began with... More
Submitted 2 months ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
Drumbeat to Boot Geithner Gets Louder, on Eve of Hearings on Disastrous Economic Crash | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
(www.alternet.org)
When a pitcher gets tired, starts throwing walks or being hit, most attentive managers take him out of the game. When policies break down, as in the case of the security system that failed to spot the... More
Submitted 2 months ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
American Forum: What Workers Want: Paid Sick Days
(amforum.blogspot.com)
Last year, in our tough economy, many of us asked for necessities and basics as holiday gifts. Among the gifts that would mean the most to families is the passage of the Healthy Families Act,... More
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To Play or Not to Play? All Four Major Pro Sports Leagues Face New Labor Contracts
(www.inthesetimes.com)
Sports wonks know that 2010 will be a blockbuster year for the MLB and NBA when some of the leagues’ marquee players like LeBron James or Derek Jeter become free agents.
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Health Care Spending Slowed In 2008
(airamerica.com)
The U.S. spent an average of $7,681 per person on health care in 2008, for an eye-popping total of $2.3 trillion — even though spending actually slowed dramatically that year because of the... More
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Service Sector Grows, But New Jobs Don't Appear
(airamerica.com)
A gauge of the U.S. service sector returned to growth last month, aided by the holiday season's retail sales. The expansion reflected a slowly improving economy — but it was too slight to generate... More
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Fed’s Hoenig Warns on Too-Big-to-Fail, Backs Glass-Steagall (blogs.wsj.com)
A top U.S. Federal Reserve official said Tuesday it’s necessary to consider how banks considered too big to fail can be broken up so they no longer pose a systemic risk to the U.S. economy.
Submitted 2 months ago by gregplaysdrums | 0 Comments |
Weekly Audit: Crashing the Corporate Christmas Party
(www.themediaconsortium.org)
While Wall Street will ring in the new year with huge bonuses and taxpayer-fueled profits, there is little holiday cheer for the workers whose tax dollars funded the bank bailouts. Although bank stock... More
Submitted 2 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
Majority Of Tea Party Group's Spending Went To GOP Firm That Created It
(tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com)
The political action committee behind the Tea Party Express (TPE) -- which already has been slammed as inauthentic and corporate-controlled by rival factions in the Tea Party movement -- directed... More
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Past And Future Decade In Business At A Glance
(airamerica.com)
A look at the decade that was and the decade to come, by industry.
Submitted 2 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
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